Day 28: Shahbag Movement - Youths begin anti-hartal procession
The Shahbagh demonstrators started a procession in the capital on Monday to protest the Jamaat-e-Islami-sponsored countrywide hartal.
Several hundred people joined the anti-hartal procession that began from Shahbagh intersection, now christened Projonmo Chattar, around 11:00am.
The procession will parade through Bangla Motor and Karwan Bazar before retuning to Shahbagh.
Earlier, people from all walks of life started to converge at the intersection since the morning defying hartal.
On Sunday, the demonstrators held a rally Bahadur Shah Park in Old Dhaka.
As part of its nationwide programmes announced on February 21, there will be a grand rally at Jatrabari in the capital at 3:00pm on Tuesday and at Suhrawardy Udyan at the same time on March 7.
Commemorating the International Women's Day on March 8, there will be a rally held at the Projonmo Chattar under the banner of "Nari Gonojagoron Mancha,"
The Shahbagh movement began on February 5, hours after Jamaat assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Mollah was sentenced to life in prison for rape, killing and genocide during country's Liberation War in 1971.
Rejecting the verdict, Bloggers and Online Activist Network initiated the protest that soon turned into a mass movement.
It also spread to other parts of the country and eventually abroad later.
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